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Be Food Safe - Food handling safety risks at home are more common than most people think. The four easy lessons of Clean, Separate, Cook, and Chill can help prevent harmful bacteria from making your family sick. Learn More »


Food Keeper - The Food Keeper contains valuable food safety and storage advice to help you maintain the freshness and quality of foods that you purchase.

Keep Food Safe in an Emergency - Knowing how to determine if food is safe and how to keep food safe will help minimize the potential loss of food and reduce the risk of foodborne illness.

Food Safety from TOPS

At TOPS, we believe offering safe, wholesome, high quality foods in clean, attractive stores is the foundation for consumer confidence. TOPS actively promotes safe food handling by continually reinforcing established policies and procedures through associate training and education programs throughout our organization. All customers are entitled to the highest possible level of food safety. In order to secure this, TOPS maintains a food safety policy based on sound scientific principles, practical operational procedures, state of the art technology, associate training and education, and pro-active customer educational programs. This reflects every TOPS associate’s commitment to safeguarding the trust of our customers.

Offering quality food products always has been and will continue to be a top priority at TOPS. We stand by our record of excellence and welcome any comments on how we can enhance our already strong food safety program. If you have any questions regarding food safety please contact us.

4 Easy Lessons in Safe Food Handling
Food handling safety risks at home are more common than most people think. The four easy lessons of Clean, Separate, Cook, and Chill can help prevent harmful bacteria from making your family sick.
 
1. CLEAN:
Bacteria can spread throughout the kitchen and get on hands, cutting boards, knives & countertops. Frequent cleaning can keep that from happening.		   2. SEPARATE:
Cross-contamination is how bacteria spreads. Keep raw meat, poultry, and seafood and their juices away from ready-to-eat foods.
3. COOK:
Even for experienced cooks, the improper heating and preparation of food means bacteria can survive.		   4. CHILL:
Bacteria spreads fastest at temperatures between 40 °F and 140 °F, so chilling food properly is one of the most effective ways to reduce the risk of foodborne illness.
 
 
Kids Food Safety Fun
Scrub Club is a fun interactive Web site that teaches children the proper way to wash their hands. Watch a webisode, play a game or sing along to the Scrub Club theme song! Downloadable activity materials for kids and materials for teachers, too!

Go to the Scrub Club website »
 

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